What is false about diabetes mellitus?
The word "diabetes" is Greek for "siphon", indicating excessive urination, and "mellitus" is Latin for "sweetened with honey", referring to the sugar in the urine.
In type 1, about 90% of people have a pancreas that produces little or no insulin requiring external insulin administration to regulate their blood sugar levels.
In type 2, the pancreas does produce insulin, but the body's cells don't respond to it effectively, a condition called insulin resistance.
In type 2, the body's immune system attacks and destroys the beta cells clustered into groups called islets of Langerhans of the pancreas.
In type 2, the pancreas works hard to produce more insulin leading to higher levels of both glucose and insulin in the blood
